The Deputy PM, Nick Clegg today hosted a Mental Health Conference, where he called on all NHS trusts to commit to a new ambition for ‘zero suicides’. The deputy prime minister wants hospitals to to adopt an approach pioneered by the Henry Ford Medical Group in Detroit; a programme that within four years saw the suicide rate among their patient population fall by 75% and by 2008, they had stopped all suicides among patients of the medical group.

Matthew from Yorkshire began borrowing from a local loan shark, after giving up his job to care for his disabled wife. He was introduced by a friend to a friendly local man who arranged to lend him £20 to begin with to see if he would pay £30 back the next week, which Matthew did.